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Question 1-(a):

Look
at the following picture carefully.

What
has Time been portrayed as? Why?

Answer:

Note:This
question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding,
experience and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare
the solution on your own. However, sample solutions have been
provided for your reference.

Time
has been portrayed as a man carrying the banner in his hands. The
image looks much similar to that of Lord Christ. It has been
portrayed so because there is nothing more powerful than man,
although man’s identity and importance is very small in
relation to time. Secondly, time has been portrayed as a human being
because the poem is meant for them.

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Question 1-(b):

What
are the other symbols associated with Time?

Answer:

Note:This
question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding,
experience and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare
the solution on your own. However, sample solutions have been
provided for your reference.

Other
symbols related to that of time might belong to nature, like the sun.

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Question 2-(a):

What
are the things that last for centuries? List a few things around you
that will survive four to five hundred years into the future.

Answer:

Note:This
question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding,
experience and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare
the solution on your own.

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Question 2-(b):

Think
of things that will perish and/or be forgotten with the passage of
time.

Answer:

Note:This
question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding,
experience and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare
the solution on your own.

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Question 6-(e):

The
poem is set in _______________________

i.
the place where the poet meets his friend

ii.
a battlefield where Mars is fighting a battle

iii.
a city ravaged by war

iv.
the poet's study where he is writing

Answer:

iv.
the poet's study where he is writing.

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Question 6-(d):

The
poet's tone in the poem is _________________

i.
despairing

ii.
optimistic

iii.
loving

iv.
admiring

Answer:

iii.
loving

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Question 6-(c):

In the line 'The living record of your memory', living record refers to ____________

i. the sonnet the poet has written for his friend

ii. an existing statue of his friend

iii. his friend who lives in the poet's memory

iv. the autobiography of the poet's friend

Answer:

i. the sonnet the poet has written for his friend

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Question 6-(b):

The
poet addresses his sonnet to _________________

i.
time

ii.
war

iii.
the person he loves

iv.
powerful rulers

Answer:

iii.
the person he loves

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Question 6-(a):

The
rich and powerful got ornate monuments made in order to
_______________

i.
show off their wealth

ii.
display their power

iii.
show their artistic talent

iv.
be remembered till posterity

Answer:

iv.
be remembered till posterity

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Question 7-(a):

Why
do you think the rich and powerful people get monuments and statues
erected in their memory?

Answer:

In
order to be remembered till posterity, the rich and powerful people
get monuments and statues erected in their memory.

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Question 7-(b):

Describe
how the monuments and statues brave the ravages of time.

Answer:

The
monuments and statues brave the ravages of time. However, in the
process, they get ruined, disfigured, broken or spoiled, if not taken
proper care of.

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Question 7-(c):

Why
does the poet refer to Time as being sluttish?

Answer:

The
poet refers to Time as sluttish because it spoils the marbled or
gilded monuments. It discolors them, spoils them and ruins them
gradually through its various agents or forces. These agents are like
air, rain, natural vegetation, etc.

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Question 7-(d):

The
poet says that neither forces of nature nor wars can destroy his
poetry. In fact, even godly powers of Mars will not have a
devastating effect on his rhyme. What quality of the poet is revealed
through these lines?

Answer:

The
permanence of his poetic art and the immortality of his verse is a
characteristic trait which can be noticed in the quality of the poet.
It is a well known fact that like Time and Nature, literary art is
also immortal and permanent, making poets live through their work,
for thousands of years.

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Question 8:

Shakespeare's
sonnet has been divided into three quatrains of 4 lines each followed
by a rhyming couplet. Each quatrain is a unit of meaning. Read the
poem carefully and complete the following table on the structure of
the poem

Rhyme
Scheme

Theme

Quatrain
1

Comparison
between poetry and monuments.

Quatrain
2

Ravages
of time on monuments contrasted with ___________________.

Quatrain
3

The
recorded memory of ____________
posterity.

Quatrain
4

Poetry
immortalizes friend.

Answer:

Rhyme
Scheme

Theme

Quatrain
1

ABAB

Comparison
between poetry and monuments.

Quatrain
2

CDCD

Ravages
of time on monuments contrasted with living
record of the poet’s beloved’s memory.

Quatrain
3

EFEF

The
recorded memory of his
beloved shall find room even in the eyes of posterity.

Quatrain
4

GG

Poetry
immortalizes friend.

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Question 9-(a):

(a)
The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the
sonnet.

Working in pairs,
underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.

Answer:

A
few instances of alliteration in the poem are:

Unswept
stone besmear’d with sluttish time;

When
wasteful war;

Nor
Mars his sword nor war’s;

Praise
shall still;

Lover’s
eyes.

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Question 9-(b):

Identify
Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.

Answer:

“The
living record of your memory” has
been personified here in the sonnet as a man. He shall pace forth
against death, bereavement, etc. He shall live life even in the eyes
of all posterity.